#evgeni malkin

[tysonhos]

in his sid hat of course

[intheupside]

• My enduring memory of the Stefan Noesen era in Pittsburgh is after he scored in his first game with the Penguins and Evgeni Malkin was the previous holder of the MVP helmet and gave it to Noesen postgame, and it was very clear in the handoff that he did not know Noesen's name, lol.

from taylor 😂

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[idontlikeem]

they are FUCKING UNBEARABLE.

[offsidenewsco]

On the seventh day of #HockeyTweetmas my true love gave to me…

Evgeni Malkin has questions, and Twitter has the answers.

Happy Holidays from Offside News, check back each day as we celebrate the season with the best of Hockey Twitter.

[gyudons]

imagine you’re tailgating and the view is sports rpf

[badangle]

oh. sob. sid telling a goalie who's no longer his "good job"… girl…

bonus: flower going “miss this… you guys. this team”

[kensatou]

[goatisbetheres]

sid giggling about dumping geno 😂 you know they keep things spicy

look at him 🥹

[tysonhos]

geno smash

[intheupside]

goofy geno is back on the menu

[missingpucks]

me giggling when my crush tells a joke

[nowitsturbo]

fellers is it gay to gush about how your teammate of 17 years gives it to you slow. between your legs. how you like it.

[dropkickers]

For younger fans, who arrived at the party late and missed the fun part, a core appeal of this team even as its on-ice performance has become increasingly maddening has been the compelling interpersonal dynamic between its players, namely Crosby and Malkin. The contrast of Crosby’s stoicism and quiet decency with Malkin’s goofiness and heart-on-sleeve emotion combined with their improbable two-decade partnership — intact because of hours-long pleading phone calls on the eve of 2022’s free agency period — is the defining dynamic of the franchise since 2005.

It’s also, perhaps unsurprisingly, the basis for tens if not hundreds of thousands of words of fiction. The authors of those stories, whose tendency to take extreme creative liberties with the nature of the relationship has earned the ire and often disgust of more conventional fans, have nonetheless hit on a truth: that what the Penguins are actually doing on the ice is probably the least interesting thing about them at this point.

when a sports writers say your team sucks there’s a reason people write rpf and they’re so valid

[gyudons]

sidney crosby cradles teammate evgeni malkin’s helmet after he gets into a fight (darren clark, 2023) | germanic warrior looking at a roman helmet (osmar schindler, 1902)

[badangle]